Next Practice in System Leadership - Chichester

New leadership and governance for a Nursery School and Children's Centre, providing multi-agency services for the locality

Chichester Community Alliance, Chichester, West Sussex

The field trial involves a nursery school and children's centre seeking to implement new leadership and governance arrangements with a view to ensuring continued high quality educational provision whilst extending opportunities for integrated working across agencies. Through a new Community Alliance between key services, this provision will support children on-site in the nursery and in the local community, providing multi-agency services for children and families.

The Community Alliance leadership and governance structure is also utilising its potential constructively to influence or adapt locally the Local Authority's wider strategy for ECM implementation, particularly its definition of locality and the allocation of services.

Significant momentum was generated by using The Bridge Change Leadership Framework and Delta 6, and they are extending the approach, with Local Authority support, to a rural children's centre in West Sussex.